Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Chase did his 30 minutes of AR reading Tuesday morning in the Big Nate book. He now has 270 minutes toward the summer reading program. When he gets to 500 minutes, he gets a free book. When he gets to the end, which is 1,000 minutes, he'll get another book and other prizes. He spent the rest of his Robux money and was excited about the things he bought and the game he was playing. He threw up a little bit in the morning but then was all right. Mama thinks maybe last night's heat at his baseball game upset his stomach. School was good. They did state capitals, division flashcards, long division problems, multiplication problems, reading comprehension about Friendship Day, questions about pyramids and other shapes, prepositional phrases, and Spanish. After school was finished, Chase did some activities on ABCYA. Mama picked Chase and Nanaw up a little after four to go to the library. Unfortunately, the library was closed because the air conditioning wasn't working. They then went to the Lemay Ferry Dollar Tree. Nanaw wanted to buy some workbooks for Chase to study but they didn't have any books past second grade. Mama and Chase picked out lots of snacks to buy, and Nanaw bought Chase some toys -- it was a fun shopping trip. 

Monday, June 13, 2022

Chase played out in the water Monday morning -- water baseball, of course. It was really hot outside, and he said the water felt really good. Nanaw sat on the front porch watching him play and reading the newspaper. Chase did his AR reading before lunch. He finished the Stonehenge book and started one of the Big Nate books. He had canned pears with his ham and cheese sandwich and chips for lunch. He liked the pears the school served at lunch so he wanted to try them at Nanaw's house. He said he liked the pears but maybe he'd try the ones in syrup the next time. Later in the afternoon, Nanaw gave him part of the orange she bought at the grocery store for him last week, at his request. He said he liked that also. Mama and Nanaw are trying to get him to eat more healthy food. School went well again. They did state capitals, division flashcards, long division problems, multiplication problems, punctuation questions (commas and quotation marks), and other miscellaneous worksheets. Chase had a baseball game, and Mama picked him up at 4:40 so he could go home and put on his baseball uniform. Mama said it was miserably hot at the game, and they lost.

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Chase and Daddy went to church on Sunday morning, and after church, they bought Krispie Kremes and pretzels from the eight-graders-to-be. The students were starting their fundraising for the trip to Washington D.C. in the spring. In the afternoon, Chase had a hockey game, probably his last one this season. Unfortunately, Chase's team didn't win but Chase had a great time playing. One of the other people watching the game told Mama and Daddy how greatly improved Chase was in hockey playing. Daddy says Chase is going to do another Learn to Play Hockey this summer and then will join another hockey team in September. Chase has one more hockey practice this season, and he said it's going to be a scrimmage. Nanaw went over to Chase's house for dinner -- grilled hamburgers and air-fried onion rings -- yummy. Chase was in his pool when Nanaw got to his house. He dried off for dinner, then went back into the pool. He and Daddy played water baseball for a while, and then Nanaw played "toss the fish in the pool" with Chase.

Saturday, June 11, 2022

Chase came over to Nanaw’s house on Saturday morning while Mama went to the grocery store. Chase and Nanaw finally played with Chase’s Hex Bug toy. It has rubbery things that you hook together in a track and then you run the hex bugs inside the track. It was fun to play with, and Chase left it at Nanaw’s house so they can play with it again next week. After they were finished playing with hex bug, Chase and Nanaw went into the computer lab to play baseball with the stuffed animals on the bed. Nanaw’s team were her stuffed animals and Chase’s team was his. After the baseball game, Chase played on the ABCYA site on Nanaw’s new computer. In the afternoon, Chase had a hockey game at 3. Unfortunately, they lost but Chase had fun playing. After the hockey game, they went out to dinner at La Fiesta on Lindbergh, one of Mama’s favorites. Next, they went to Dick’s to buy running shoes for Chase. Daddy and Chase ran around the neighborhood last night, and Chase has signed up for cross-country running at school in the fall. After Dick’s, Chase went swimming in his pool. Mama sent Nanaw a picture of Chase at Dick’s and one of him in his pool playing water baseball.

Friday, June 10, 2022

Chase did his AR reading Friday morning in the Where Is Stonehenge? and Nanaw logged his time in the library's summer reading program. School in the afternoon was fun, and Chase did very well. School included division flashcards, practicing eight state capitals, long division and multiplication problems, area problems in math, reading comprehension worksheets and Spanish. After they finished the regular school assignments, Chase did some educational games on ABCYA. Mama came over a little after four to take Nanaw and Chase to Dobb's to pick up Nanaw's car. Chase went to Walmart grocery shopping with Nanaw because Mama was having dinner with Hunter and Brady's moms at Washy's. Chase was perfect at Walmart -- it's so much fun shopping with him. Nanaw bought several things for him: a stuffed Amung Us animal, canned pears, Juicy Bursts fruit snacks, two oranges and caramel M&Ms. Chase helped Nanaw do the self-checkout, which was fun. He's such a special boy. After Walmart, they went to Schnuck's and then Nanaw took Chase home -- Daddy was home from work by then. 

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Chase did his AR reading in Where Is Stonehenge? on Thursday morning; he had skipped it yesterday because Nanaw forgot about it. Nanaw logged his reading on the library reading program site; he now has 180 minutes or 180 points. The first goal is 500 points or halfway through the program; the prize is a book that Chase can select. Chase asked Nanaw if the second hour of school could include what he called "fun school" -- what he meant was playing educational games on the ABCYA website, and Nanaw said yes. Thursday's schoolwork included reviewing 8 of the 50 state capitals, division flashcards, multiplication and division problems, a punctuation worksheet covering commas, two pages of fraction problems, math measurement problems, a science worksheet about reptiles and amphibians, a science unit on igneous rocks on the science application on Chase's Chrome book, and a social studies chapter on Illinois government officials, also an application on Chase's Chrome book. After all this schoolwork was done, Chase and Nanaw played Math Bingo on the ABCYA website. Chase also played some other games on the ABCYA website. Dobb's called to tell Nanaw that her car wouldn't be done until tomorrow so Mama and Chase didn’t need to take Nanaw to Dobb's to pick up her car. In the evening, Chase had hockey practice.

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Chase had quite an exciting adventure on Wednesday. He went swimming with his friend Brady, Brady's sister Emma, Brady's grandma and Nanaw. They went to the swimming place in Columbia where Brady's family has a membership. Chase has been there before; one of his school classes had an end-of-the-year swimming party there. The weather was cloudy and cool, and the pool was cold, but the kids had a good time swimming. Nanaw had Chase test out all the swimming strokes he knows. They only stayed a little over an hour because it was chilly outside. After the swimming adventure, they had another adventure: They went to McDonald's for lunch and ate inside. It was the first time Chase and Nanaw had been able to eat inside McDonald's in over two years. Chase had a plain cheeseburger and fries. Nanaw had chicken McNuggets. When they got home, Chase didn't much want to do school so they did fun school things. Chase played his clarinet and the piano. Then they played math bingo on the computer. Chase checked out lots of different games on the ABCYA site. He did his 30 minutes of AR reading in Where Is Stonehenge?